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As reported in the Wall Street Journal today, rich white people own, run, and will rebuild New Orleans in their own image.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it strikes me that as a nation, the U.S. still isn’t very good about talking about issues of race and class, and more to the point, isn’t very good talking about structures and policies and their impact on people’s lives.

During a live, televised charity for Katrina victims, a bit of inconvenient truth somehow managed to escape…

excerpt from “40th Anniversary of Watts,” DemocracyNow.org, 8/11/05
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Watts uprising in Los Angeles. A white California Highway Patrol officer named Lee Minikus pulled over 21(twenty-one) year-old Marquette Frye, who was black, on suspicion of drunk driving. Frye had been driving in the car with his brother and additional officers […]

WASHINGTON - The intensifying violence in the Middle East is straining relations between black and Jewish leaders in the United States, with potentially serious consequences for the Democratic Party.
The conflict between two of the party’s strongest support groups - which have a history dating to the civil rights era of working together - threatens to […]

Mosibudi Mangena, Consciousness Defines Who We Are

To be truly free, we need to be strong, cohesive and in solidarity with one another. For that to happen, we need to give ourselves generous doses of Black Consciousness. Then, and only then, shall we be able to build an open, democratic and more equal society in which […]

Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, Mass March in South Africa Against the WCAR
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA (August 31) — On the opening day of the United Nations’ sponsored World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, almost 20,000 persons marched in an anti-government demonstration to protest the failure of the South African government’s land reform policy for the […]

World Leaders Gather for Controversial Racism Meeting